25 unforgettable Obamacare quotes

“It will be his Waterloo. It will break him.” — Former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), July 2009

"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of [President Barack] Obama’s 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil." — Sarah Palin, Aug. 2009

"I have no problem with folks saying, 'Obama cares.' I do care. If the other side wants to be the folks that don't care, that's fine with me.” — President Barack Obama, responding to the Republicans’ use of the term Obamacare, Aug. 2011

“American freedom and liberty have taken a hard blow today.” — Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) following the Supreme Court decision on Obamacare and the Commerce Clause, June 2012

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“We the people have been told there is no choice. You must buy health insurance or pay the new Gestapo — the IRS.” — Maine Gov. Paul LePage, a Republican, July 2012

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“It isn’t far-fetched to think that the president of the United States could say, 'We need to save health care expenses — the federal government will only pay for one baby to be born in the hospital per family or two babies to be born per family. That could happen.'” — then-Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), March 2012

“They're the same f----ing bill. [Romney] just can't have his cake and eat it too. … He can try to draw distinctions and stuff, but he's just lying.” — MIT health care expert Jonathan Gruber on Romneycare versus Obamacare, Nov. 2011

“If I’m the godfather of this thing, then it gives me the right to kill it." — GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, March 2012

“The insurance companies are creating their own tombs. Much like the Jews boarding the trains to concentration camps, private insurers are used by the feds to put the system in place because the federal government has no way to set up the exchange.” — Idaho state Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll, a Republican, Jan. 2013

“It was the best bill you could have passed.“ — Former President Bill Clinton, Feb. 2013

“I think that probably no one fully anticipated when you have a law that phases in over time how much confusion that creates for a lot of people.” — HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, April 2013

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“The implementation of this is fabulous.” — House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, June 2013

“I think we paid a terrible price for health care. I would not have pushed it as hard.” — Former Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), April 2013

“Don’t let people confuse you. Don’t let them run the okie doke on you. Don’t be bamboozled.” — President Barack Obama, May 2013

“I’m a physician. I’m quite worried about the privacy of medical records. ... I’m quite worried that your medical records now will be evaluated by the IRS.” — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) after the IRS scandal, May 2013

The Affordable Care Act is "barreling down on us like a jet landing in San Francisco. It's it should make people really concerned." — New Hampshire state Sen. Andy Sanborn, a Republican following the plane crash at San Francisco International Airport, July 2013

"This is a big f------ deal." — Vice President Joe Biden at the bill signing ceremony, March 2010